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Edited Lego photographs

This one isn’t really related to the subjective matter of shape and form, just a bit of fun.

I felt that that photos I had taken of each subject and their Lego counterpart needed to be merged together into one to clearly show what was going on, so I did so using Adobe Photoshop. I simply cut out the hand and Lego in the image focusing on this, then feathered and smoothed the edges and inserted this on top of the photograph focusing on the subject on the street. I purposely left the hand in the photographs as it implies context to the image, by leaving the hand in the viewer can clearly see that the Lego object isn’t superimposed into the image and allows for a true sense of scale. The close up Lego is meant to be the simplified version of what it is covering, showing the basic shape and form of the subject, this is what I am trying to show.

Here is the (rough) cut out of the Lego piece and my hand, separated from it’s original background.

I then insert the cropped image into the focused image of the subject.

I remove the excess from the original image and use the ‘refine edge’ tool to smooth and feather the edges, this allows for the Lego and hand to blend in better with the other image.

For subjects that I wanted to replace with the Lego, I selected the area around the subject and used the ‘content aware’ tool to blend in the area to remove the subject.

I then placed the Lego image on top making it look as though it was never there.